Keenan Field's blog

New to beta this week is more data from our Geoscape® dataset. The ‘OverhangingTree’ attribute lets you know if there is a tree intersecting the boundary of a building. We believe this could be useful for customers in the insurance or energy sectors. Don't leave risk to chance. Use this new data to reduce your risk profile and understand potential challenges with solar installation without the need for a site visit.

Following discussions with our valued beta dev community, we're looking at adding more data from our friends at @ABSStats, specifically the ASGS Remoteness Areas off the Remoteness Structure. This addition will help you find the remoteness classifications of addresses from both the 2011 and 2016 national census data.

As we continue to respond to your feedback on our APIs, we’ve developed a new feature that will reduce the number of calls required to identify the primary building at any given address. This time and money saver is designed to help you quickly and efficiently locate important details about an address and building.

We've released a new version of the Addresses API. In this release we've added in a feature that has been largely requested, we now have a reverse geocoder. At this time it's a simple reverse geocoder allowing you to query the addresses endpoint with a latitude and longitude separated by a comma. In addition, you can specify the radius on that point to search the default is 50 meters. search results are returned in an ordered list from closest to furthest from the supplied lat long. We'd love some feedback on how we can improve the reverse geocoder.

We've taken on feedback and acknowledged that it's really important for you all to know when our services are up and performing as they should be. Because of this, we have implemented an automated status page that will display the current state of each of the APIs based on a bunch of automated tests. In the event of a test failure (an API call isn't working the way it should), we'll update the status of the status page and then update it again when the tests are passing.

We've released a new version of both Addresses and Buildings API. This has the breaking change to standardizing to lowerCamelCase, the good news is as we've standardised now we shouldn't run into this kind of issue in the future. All new APIs will also follow the pattern of using lowerCamelCase.

We're making a change to our beta APIs that will cause issues for you.

At the moment the API is a mix of snake_case, lowerCamelCase and misc... we want to make this consistent before we push the APIs out of beta. With that, we've been talking to a few of you and decided on standardising to lowerCamelCase.

You can get to the portal through the "Support" tab at the top of the page or just send an email to beta@psma.com.au. On the portal, you can request support, let us know about bugs, suggest new features or improvements. We've added the portal because we want to make sure we don't miss feedback from you all. Let us know what you think about the new support portal.